Marco De Anselmo Peres

Professor Marco De Anselmo Peres.
Marco Peres qualified as a dentist in 1987 (University of São Paulo, Brazil) and began working in Population Oral Health in 1989 when he completed a one-year, full-time training diploma course in Public Health. Following this he completed his Masters in Public Health and PhD in Public Health at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, spending one year at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of the University College London. From 1994 to 2012, he worked in the Department of Public Health, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil where he coordinated the Postgraduate Program in Public Health. In December 2012 he was appointed as a Professor in Population Oral Health and Director of the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Heath, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide.

Marco is an internationally recognised researcher in the field of Population Oral Health, he has been cited in a paper published in 2016 in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology (doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12249) as one of the top ten most productive researcher in Public Health Dentistry in the world in the last half century. Marco was the recipient of the 2017 International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Distinguished Scientist Award for Global Oral Health Research.

His areas of interest are oral health surveillance, use of fluorides, inequalities in oral health, life course epidemiology, evidence-based health care, and the relationship between oral health and general health.

Marco is the coordinator of the 2017-2018 National Study of Adult Oral Health in Australia, a former International Dental Association for Dental Research (IADR) Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network (GOHIRN) counsellor for Asia and Pacific region. He is also a founder member of the International Centre for Oral Health Inequalities Research and Policy (ICOHIRP) based at University College London, United Kingdom, a member of the Brazilian Commission of Social Determinants of Health and a member of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases Collaboration, the deputy chair of the Expert Working Group for Fluoride of the Australian and New Zealand Nutrient Reference Values for Fluoride, a member of the Oral Health Expert Group of the Australian Burden of Diseases 2011 Study.

During his career, he has made many contributions to research, mainly in the area of epidemiology and inequalities in heath, as well as in leadership of professional organizations in epidemiology and dental public health. Together with Associate Professor Karen Peres and Dr Flavio Demarco, Marco coordinated the oral health studies of three Pelotas birth cohort studies starting in 1982, 1993 and 2004. Marco also spent three months in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 2008–2009, to exchange professional experiences in the field of life course epidemiology and inequalities in oral health. Another important research project he coordinated was the EPIFORIPA study, a population-based cohort study of a representative sample of adults from Florianopolis, Brazil, which commenced in 2009.

Since 2002 Marco has had continuous funding grants from Brazilian Agencies (CNPq and CAPES) with the award of 12 project grants over this period. Marco coordinated the research team who conducted the oral health studies in the three population-based birth cohort studies (1982, 1993, and 2004) carried out in Pelotas, Brazil, which were supported by Welcome Trust. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the 2010 Brazilian Oral Health Survey and a member of several research committees of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and Education.

Marco is leading (CIA) a NHMRC partnership project grant to conduct the National Study of Adult Oral Health entitled Delivering effective dental healthcare in 2020-2030: A national longitudinal partnership study of burden of oral diseases in Australia. 2016-2020.

In the past 10 years Marco has given oral presentations at 45 conferences in Australia, Brazil, Canada, USA, UK, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Uruguay, Japan, South Korea and Thailand.

Marco has supervised more than 30 Honours, Masters and PhD students in Public Health, Dentistry and Epidemiology, authored two books, twelve book chapters and more than 200 peer reviewed papers. His work has received almost 10,000 citations, an H index of 55.

Marco is a member of many professional bodies including the Australian Dental Association, International Association for Dental Research, the Australasian Epidemiological Association, International Epidemiological Association, and Brazilian Association for Collective Health.

Dogramaci, E., Peres, M., & Peres KG. (2016). Breastfeeding and malocclusions - the quality and level of evidence on the Internet for the public. Journal of the American Dental Association, 147(10), 817-825.DOIScopus4WoS4

De Anselmo Peres, M., & Traebert, E. S. (2005). Prevalence of malocclusions and their impact on the quality of life of 18-year-old young male adults of Florianópolis, Brazil. Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry, 3(4), 217-224.

Marcenes, W., Freysleben, G., & De Anselmo Peres, M. (2001). Contribution of changing diagnostic criteria toward reduction of caries between 1971 and 1997 in children attending the same school in Florianopolis, Brazil. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 29(6), 449-455.DOIScopus13WoS11Europe PMC13

De Anselmo Peres, M., Narvai, P. C., & Calvo, M. C. (1997). Prevalence of dental caries in 12-year-old children in localities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1990-1995. Revista de Saude Publica, 31(6), 594-600.

1997

Peres, M., Narvai, P., & Calvo, M. (1997). Prevalence of dental caries in a 12-year-old population in localities in Southeastern Brazil, during the period 1990-1995. REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, 31(6), 594-600.WoS12